CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17575, 27 June 1925, Page 2

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. At the inquest yesterday on Mrs Betsy Forrester, who cued suddenly at her residence, 9, Burns Street, Sydenham, the Coroner (Mr Wyveru Wilson) returned, a verdict of death due to heart iaiiure. Negotiations for the taking over by tbe state of Stuart and Chapman’s tramway, between Ross and Waitaha. and its extension southwards, were recommended to the Government by a recent conference of the owners of the tramline and representatives of the Railway Department, the Westland County Council and the Farmers’ Union. Owing to a statement made at a recent meeting of the Oxford Farmers’ Union that there seemed to be a great difference in the qaulity of sheep dip the union has decided to recommend that all sheep dips be subject to Government analysis and registration, and that every packet should bear a certificate of analysis. l>r R. L. Withers, who lias returned from an extended trip to England and the Continent, says that the New Zealand hospitals are quite up to the standard, of the London institutions, as far as surgery goes. The reason why New Zealand medical men go Home is because there is more material there, and there are greater opportunities fur research and new advances. At the annual meeting of the Social Welfare Guild yesterday, If. F. Herbert advocated the compulsory retention in suitable institutions of persons suffering from T. B. Legisla tion to this end would have to come into operation before long, for there were peogje at large who for their own sakes should, be. confined in institutions provided for sufferers of the disease. Mr R. M’lntosh, the Mayor of Rangiora, has drawn attention to the danger that exists through rabbits being poisoned with strychnine in tho riverbed near the town. There is a probability of children picking up the rabbits and taking them home to be used for food. At the Royal Commission on University Education now sitting at Wellington, Mr J. H Howell. Director of the Wellington Technical College, gave evidence that while deprecating night lectures, he was of opinion that in certain Faculties. such as Arts, Law. Commerce and Music, provision should be made for private students who could nob obtain full-time University training, to obtain tlieir degrees. Tt was suggested therefore, that the University of New Zealand as at present constituted, with certain modifications, should be responsible for the examination and granting of degrees to externa] candidates. No candidate under twenty-four years should be eligible for an external degree.